Investigates manipulating the use of anaphoric relations and text adherence to story grammar rules to produce different conditions of inferencing demands for college-age students. Finds that text learning was more evident in the low-inference group for both passage types. Finds also that subjects in the same group manifested greater accuracy in…

Investigates the effects of structural cueing (color or no color) and decision level (rote or semantic) on students' verbatim retention of technical prose and concludes that the results support the distinctiveness of encoding hypothesis for learning via the microcomputer. (DF)